The fifth edition of Criminology Today: An Integrative Introduction offers students a clear, contemporary, and comprehensive introduction to criminology that encourages critical thinking about the causes of crime and crime prevention strategies. The text's hallmark thematic approach of social problems versus social responsibility (is crime a matter of individual responsibility or a symptom of a dysfunctional society?)prompts students to think critically about the causes of crime and helps them see the link between crime theories and crime policies.

PART 1 The Crime Picture

CHAPTER 1 What Is Criminology?

CHAPTER 2 Patterns of Crime

CHAPTER 3 Where Do Theories Come From?

PART 2 Crime Causation

CHAPTER 4 Classical and Neoclassical Thought

CHAPTER 5 Biological Roots of Criminal Behavior

CHAPTER 6 Psychological and Psychiatric Foundations of Criminal Behavior

PART 3 Crime Causation Revisited

CHAPTER 7 Social Structure Theories

CHAPTER 8 Theories of Social Process and Social Development

CHAPTER 9 Social Conflict Theories

PART 4 Crime in the Modern World

CHAPTER 10 Crimes against Persons

CHAPTER 11 Crimes against Property

CHAPTER 12 White-Collar and Organized Crime

CHAPTER 13 Public Order and Drug Crimes

CHAPTER 14 Technology and Crime

CHAPTER 15 Globalization and Terrorism

EPILOGUE Future Directions